STOP AIDS Project hosts

Hole Health:

A forum for gay men on HPV, the vaccine, and anal cancer

event recorded in San Francisco on April 9, 2007
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Topics addressed include:

• how the new HPV vaccine might affect gay men
• information about men's risks for HPV and anal cancer
• disease prevalence information
• ways that gay men can maintain anal health
• prevention efforts that should be considered by individuals, providers, and public health

Panelists included: Dr. Joel Palefsky, Dr. Richard Loftus, and Michael Scarce. Dr. Joel Palefsky is a Professor of Medicine at UCSF and Program Director of the UCSF/Moffitt General Clinical Research Center. He is a nationally recognized leader in research on HPV and anal cancer, specializing in studies of gay and bisexual men's risk for anal cancer. He is currently a Principal Investigator for a trial examining the efficacy of HPV vaccine in men. Dr. Richard Loftus is a physician in private practice at Davies Medical Center. Fifteen years ago, he was a member of the original ACT-UP New York, and later moved to San Francisco where he was active with ACT-UP Golden Gate. He worked as a researcher at the Gladstone Institute of Virology prior to medical school at UCSF. Michael Scarce is the Internet Intervention Coordinator for STOP AIDS Project. He is a former Contributing Editor and writer for POZ magazine and the author of two books on sexual health, including Smearing the Queer: Medical Bias in the Health Care of Gay Men. This forum was moderated by Jennifer Hecht, Education Director of STOP AIDS Project. For more information, contact her at: jhecht@stopaids.org

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